Thursday, November 15, 2012

FORTY STATES DESIRE TO SECEDE FROM THE UNION: TREASON OR ACT OF LIBERTY?

FORTY STATES DESIRE TO SECEDE FROM THE UNION: TREASON OR ACT OF LIBERTY?

By Fahim A.
Knight-El

I am advocate of legal and peaceful dissent because our United States
Constitution affords us that right and it would be hypocritical, if I did not
acknowledge that these individuals and States who filed petitions to secede from
the United States Government have the right to express dissent and present their
grievances in a lawful manner. This is protected under the First Amendment Right
of the United States Constitution and I do not think that they should feel any
repression from the U.S. Government for seeking separation and sovereignty from
the United States Government. This is how Washington State framed its secession
petition: “Peacefully grant the State of Washington to peacefully withdraw from
the United States and to form its own government. Under the auspices of the 9th
and 10th Amendments of the Constitution of the United States of America the
Citizens of the State of Washington take this grave action in an attempt to
wrest sovereignty back unto itself so as to secure the blessings of liberty to
ourselves and to our posterity”.

Yet, I have always maintained that race is still unresolved in the United
States in particular in these neo-confederate States such as Texas (80,000
signatures), Mississippi, North Carolina, Virginia, Tennessee, Kentucky,
Arkansas, Georgia, Alabama, etc; (the last time I checked over five hundred
thousand people had signed onto the various petitions to secede) have been using
the election and now re-election of President Barack Obama to antagonize and
instigate the fears of mainly poor and oppressed whites in which to appeal to
their historical emotions of their ancestors losing the Civil War. I was
visiting Savannah, Georgia, perhaps two years ago and there was a convention
being held at the Marriott hotel off General McIntosh Boulevard and the
Riverfront under the banner of the Sons of the Confederate Veterans and it was a
sight to see this nostalgic era being played out in the costumes and replicas of
Civil War weapons, etc. The aura in the hotel gave the impression that they were
gearing up to fight and reclaim the South for a second time.

Our Government has become tyrannical, totalitarian and Fascist in which some
people are angered about the direction that our nation is headed and view the
federal government as impeding on their personal rights and State's rights with
impunity. I would agree with this much of their argument; it is no longer a
government of the people by the people and for the people. Some Patriots feel
that their liberty has been further stomped upon by the reactionary policies of
President Barack Obama and the election served as proof positive for the
necessity to declare themselves free of Union rule (I would be the first to
admit that this sounds like an 18th or 19th century scenario and debate and not
an issue of serious modern relevance applicable to the 21st century). Yet, if
you do not know by now, these people are serious about seceding from the United
States (I must also admit that this is no homogenous or monolithic voice echoing
these sentiments, it is perhaps more like a woven together blanket of various
ideologies, which ranges from the Ku Klux Klan, Militia groups, strict
constitutional constructionist, Tea Party loyalist, Sons/Daughters of the
Confederate Veterans, etc., to the far the rightwing of the Republican Party and
many other dissatisfied white Americans. They consider themselves as so-called
good and God fearing Christians who want to separate from a nation that has
become increasingly black and brown. We better play close attention because
these petitions could gain momentum. I am of the belief that even the submission
of the petition of itself could be considered acts of treason and sedition.

I am assuming that this is a white led movement and if secession is granted,
how do some of these states deal with large populations of Latinos (Hispanics),
Asians and African Americans and would they be accepted as part of the seceding
sovereignty? Many that hold this rightwing agenda of seceding from the Union
believe that race—interpreted to mean that black and brown is the problem with
America and represents that 47% class that Mitt Romney depicted as looking for
government handouts. The variable of race serves as an antagonist contradiction;
they could not imagine the Super Pacs spent almost 6 billion dollars collective
during this 2012 election season and spent over 2 billion dollars just on the
presidential election in which Karl Rove assured the Rightwing that he would
deliver them the presidency. Will the elected governors of these states serve as
the new presidents of these various proposed new sovereign nations and
territories? How will the mineral rites and natural resources be dealt with?
Will these sovereign nations be allowed to have their own independent arm forces
on U.S. soil and most of all will they be permitted to enter into international
treaties and agreements with enemy nations of the United States? What will be
their arrangement with the United States relative to who will control the vital
and strategic ports and waterways that are of most important to the United
States national security? The notion of seceding as one can tell is a complex
theory and will pose problems for the petitioners and the United States.

There is conservative website named RedState led by Erik Erickson who has
from time to time endorsed the idea of Texas (the lone Star State) having the
right to secede from the Union and even Texas Governor and United States
Presidential candidate Rick Perry has endorsed the seceding movement from time
to time. Now, reason with me, because I have to point out the double standard in
order to bring some balance to this article and this is where me and most white
patriots part ways; just take a moment and imagine if Muslims in the United
States were to have filed this same type petitions and ask for a state which to
secede and separate from the United States and declare themselves as a
government inside a government. There would have been tremendous outrage spewed
by the ignorant that Muslims would establish a sovereign state based on Sharia
rule and some of these same liberty seekers would be opposed to Muslims seeking
to secede from the Union; moreover, they would not even be allowed to have this
type conversation without persecution and prosecution. This automatically would
have called for intense Federal Bureau of Investigation scrutiny and
surveillance, and no doubt it would have been met by the long arm of the U.S.
Patriot Act, Military Commission Act, Anti-Terrorism Acts, National Defense
Authorization Act, United States Justice Department and any other arsenal at the
disposal of the office of Homeland Security could use to halt such an action
that would be viewed as anti-American and the question of secession in of itself
could be considered a declaration of war. These individuals filing these type
petitions and anyone associated with them relative to post 9-11, perhaps could
be argued that they should be classified as Enemy Combatants and enemies against
the State (this government recourse is not without precedent).

For example, Huey P. Newton and Bobby Seale (founders of the Black Panther
Party for Self-Defense) and George and Jonathan Jackson (Soledad Brothers) and
other black revolutionaries were prime targets of the United States Government
counterintelligence program dubbed Cointelpro by FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover.
The United States Government implemented massive and widespread acts of
repression aimed at all levels of the Black Power Movement for daring to declare
themselves a self-defense organization that advocated Black Nationalism and who
evoked the Second Amendment Right to bear arms and even raised the question of
secession. Many of these black freedom fighters lost their lives and others
received long term prison sentences like the Panther 21 and others like Elmer
‘Geronimo’ Pratt who was wrongly convicted and after serving over 25 years in
California State Prison system was exonerated, Mumia Abu-Jamal (Philadelphia
Chapter of the Black Panther Party) who still languishes in the American penal
institution with a death warrant over his head.

The Black Panther Party had a 10 Point Plan; which number 10 stated: “When,
in the course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve
the political bonds which have connected them with another, and to assume, among
the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the laws of
nature and nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of
mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the
separation”.

“We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal;
that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights; that
among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. That to secure
these rights, governments are instituted among men, deriving their just powers
from the consent of the governed; that, whenever any form of government becomes
destructive of these ends, it is the right of the people to alter or to abolish
it, and to institute a new government, laying its foundation on such principles,
and organizing its powers in such form as to them shall seem most likely to
effect their safety and happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that
governments long established should not be changed for light and transient
causes; and, accordingly, all experience hath shown that mankind are most
disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by
abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But, when a long train of
abuses and usurpation, pursuing invariably the same object, evinces a design to
reduce them under absolute despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to
throw off such government, and to provide new guards for their future security.”

The United States Government took all actions to disrupt and neutralize
militant and radical black leadership and worked to compromise their
organizational effectiveness by sending U.S. Government agent provocateurs who
were used to instigate and cause internal confusion in order to incite police,
which led to many Panthers losing their lives at the hands of racist police.
Eldridge Cleaver in 1968 published his most famous book titled, “Soul on Ice” in
which he wrote a very interesting letter to then Governor Ronald Reagan
requesting that he be pardoned and sentence be commuted (Cleaver declared
himself a political prisoner). Many do not know that Cleaver while serving
prison time had converted to the Nation of Islam and teachings of Elijah
Muhammad. The Honorable Elijah Muhammad also advocated separation and secession
and many do not know that the Black Panther Party "10 Point Plan" was drawn from
the Black Muslims and Nation of Islam Program “What the Muslims Want” and “What
the Muslims Believe” Muhammad stated: “We want our people in America whose
parents or grandparents were descendants from slaves, to be allowed to establish
a separate state or territory of their own--either on this continent or
elsewhere. We believe that our former slave masters are obligated to provide
such land and that the area must be fertile and minerally rich. We believe that
our former slave masters are obligated to maintain and supply our needs in this
separate territory for the next 20 to 25 years--until we are able to produce and
supply our own needs”.
“Since we cannot get along with them in peace and equality, after giving them
400 years of our sweat and blood and receiving in return some of the worst
treatment human beings have ever experienced, we believe our contributions to
this land and the suffering forced upon us by white America, justifies our
demand for complete separation in a state or territory of our own”

They hailed one bright spot in this recent presidential election relative to
electing close to 30 Republican Governors (or adding to the Republican count of
conservative governors) and I am willing to bet you these are some of the States
who filed petitions to secede from the United States. Here is how the state of
the Commonwealth of Virginia petition read: “As the founding fathers of the
United States of America made clear in the Declaration of Independence in 1776:
"When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to
dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to
assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which
the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the
opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel
them to the separation." "...Governments are instituted among Men, deriving
their just powers from the consent of the governed, that whenever any Form of
Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to
alter or abolish it, and institute new Government..."

They are masters at disguising their real intent by hiding behind politics.
Many of today’s secession movement still possess a 16th and 17th century
colonial mentality in which in their worldview, as well as their paradigm has
been shaped by historical nostalgia and from this mindset, Chattel Slavery and
the Civil War (1861-1865) are also unresolved (the Dred Scott Decision and the
Missouri Compromise) and other slave legislation (they believe that at some
point they will redeem themselves relative to losing the Civil War and will one
day physically fight to regain their great, great great, great grandparents
glory). These States are hiding behind their so-called political
dissatisfaction, but from a white supremacy perspective, they are more angered
that our country is being led by President Barack Obama, a black man and they
would rather secede from the Union, then to remain under his ruler-ship for
another four years. But here is the contradiction they claim to be advocates of
patriotism and democracy and possess a deep seated belief in liberty. But I
thought in theory the Revolutionary War (1770-1776)—Declaration of Independence
with the 16 Colonies breaking away from the ruler-ship and domination of Great
Britain and the U.S. Constitutional Conventions held in Philadelphia (the city
coined the city of brotherly love, which is direct Masonic lingo) and culminated
with the formulation of the U.S. declaring itself one nation. Furthermore, U.S.
Constitution in 1787 was rooted in the principles of freedom, justice and
equality (and I was taught that the Civil War was fought to keep this nation one
and unified). Many revisionist historians agree and maintained as Charles A.
Beard wrote in his treatise titled: "An Economic Interpretation of the United
States Constitution" (1913) the constitutional language in principle and intent
favored white male property owners. Thus, white women and blacks were permitted
from voting, which lie the bases of American democracy. Blacks were written in
the U.S. Constitution as chattel (property) and were deemed 3/5 of a human
being.

The South lost the Civil War and most reasonable historians would agree that
slavery was the central issue of the Civil War (1861-1865) because it was the
economic driving force of the nation at that time and perhaps the most value
commodity in the History of America; but one should not be mistaken because the
North and the South benefited from slave labor. I recently read a piece authored
by Donald W. Livingston titled, “Why the War Was Not About Slavery” Livingston
stated: “We think of slavery as an alien and "un-American" practice confined to
the South in the 19th century. But an honest look at American history reveals a
quite different picture. Slavery was woven into the economic, political, and
cultural fabric of the Northern states from the beginning. The first African
slaves were brought to New England in 1638 in exchange for enslaved Indians.
Boston began importing slaves from Africa in 1644. For 164 years New Englanders
sold slaves throughout the Western Hemisphere”. Jefferson Davis and Robert Lee,
the faces of the Confederate South had declared that the South would secede from
the Union before they would capitulate and give up slavery. The South viewed
slavery strictly as an economic necessity (we have always questioned the moral
ineptness of this evil institution) and these wealthy white property owners were
not willing to cripple their profitable economic enterprise by giving up their
labor force without a fight. Some African Americans view Abraham Lincoln as a
hero because he so-called freed the slaves on September 22, 1962 with the
signing of the Emancipation Proclamation (but actually it would ultimately be
the Thirteen Amendment to the United States Constitution in 1965 that truly
abolished slavery); however the slaves that he freed in the Confederate South,
he had no jurisdiction over those slaves.

Lincoln used the issue of slavery as a strategic and tactful maneuver to
create social and political tension for the Confederates and to create military
discord in order to disrupt South‘s efforts to succeed from the Union. Most
Historians have argued that if Lincoln could have maintained the Union and kept
slavery as an institution, he would have done exactly that and for that reason
this writer does not view Lincoln as a philanthropic humanitarian who valued
black people in this over-all conflict. J.A. Rogers gives this assessment in his
book titled, “Africa’s Gift to America: The Afro-American in the Making and
Saving of the United States : With New Supplement, Africa and Its
Potentialities”.
I have been a harsh critic of President Barack Obama since he appeared on the
radar as a presidential candidate in 2008 as a Rothschild, Rockefellers and
Kissinger agent, but to those who are not aware of these entities, perhaps view
his two elections as the greatest form of democratic expression—this was seen in
Obama receiving over three and half million of the popular vote (surely one
could argue that the people had spoken) and received over 300 electoral College
votes. This negative sentiments and backlash represents the racial and
historical divide in the United States.

However, some would further, argue that the Civil War was about States rights
and this has been debated since the formulation of the United States as a
government and nation in 1787—federal authority (central government) versus
States right to exercise self-determination; but no one could deny that slavery
created a political rift and social tension between two bourgeoisie classes of
white men (aristocratic property owners from the North and South). This was the
primary reason the southern states were literally up in arms. The North (the
Union Army and leadership) were mandating that the south give up their most
valuable asset, which was free slave labor. Agriculture and farming was the
economic way of life for the South and it was African slaves for 310 years who
plowed, planted, excavated and worked from dawn to dusk (never even received the
40 acres and a mule for their servitude).

This free labor created a power Elite aristocratic class and even to this day
their wealth has transcended time and eventually was used to establish banking
houses. The cotton gin was a relatively new invention and technology had not
advanced enough to do away with the need for human labor. And to this very day
the farms and fields (agri-business) of America are full of brown hands (migrant
workers who moves with the planting seasons and is even allowed work visas to
enter the United States from Mexico and other Central and South American
nations) picking the cotton, tobacco, vegetables, fruits and all manner of
produce that sustains this nation (the Latinos are the new slaves). Slavery was
an integral part to making America a wealthy society; thus, before the factories
in the North became the focal point of American business, it was agriculture
(numerous of cash crops ranging from cotton to tobacco). Also the early American
settlers could not have survived without the Indians who literally saved the
very people who would later exterminate them, and the African Slaves who built
the early infrastructure of the United States have been left as second class
citizens and vagabonds of the earth. The U.S. economy was built and dependent on
slavery; many of the Founder Fathers of this nation and the framers of the U.S.
Constitution were vast landowners and slaveholders.Will these people who are looking to secede from the United States represent
the impetus and beginning of an internal Civil War?

Fahim A. Knight, Chief Researcher for keeping it Real Think Tank located in
Durham, NC; our mission is to inform African Americans and all people of
goodwill, of the pending dangers that lie ahead; as well as decode the symbolism
and reinterpreted the hidden meanings behind those who operate as invisible
forces, but covertly rules the world. We are of the belief that an enlightened
world will be better prepared to throw off the shackles of ignorance and not be
willing participants for the slaughter. Our MOTTO is speaking truth to power.
Fahim A. Knight-EI can be reached at fahimknight@ yahoo.com.

3 comments:

Anonymous
said...

wow I understand that people are unhappy with the results of the 2012 U.S national elections, but I would like to point out that problems do not get better by running away from or throwing a temper tantrum every time something has been decided to be handled a way that is in opposition to the approach you would have chosen, but regardless the country has chosen a plan to aboslve the current crisis and whether we like it our not this country is a republic of sorts and we elected the officials that made the decisions that caused this rescission. We are accountable for our votes and supporting the elected method of fixing those problems. If we don't work together then we stand on the sidelines and allow our collective choices burn us to the ground. If we decide to run away we leave our problems to another. I feel that it is time to put bad feelings and pride aside in order to fix the issue instead of watching it destroy the country we call home.

I think many would agree with your assessment and consider it valid (I agree with most of it myself). But I do think within our Democracy, it gives us the right to dissent and I do not necessarily think that dissenting is a bad thing as long as it is within the legal guideline and laws of our nation. The U.S. Constitution supports this contention.

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About Me

Fahim A. Knight-El considers himself a free thinker and an outside the box thinker who does not mind going the extra mile in search of truth. Knight-El has been on this journey for a very long time and has come to the realization that there is a war going on for the minds, hearts and souls of humanity. The enemies of truth have consistently fed humanity false concepts, half-truths and outright lies. I have taken upon myself to help liberate the minds of all of those who have been duped by this evil Cabal. Thus, I am not a conspiracy theorist, but I accept that there are some well planned conspiracies by the Dynastic Families and their Operatives. We have an obligation to expose falsehood. I am constantly asked Bro. Knight-El, what do you believe? I believe in FREEDOM, JUSTICE and EQUALITY.